Manager, Social Investment and Alternative Finance

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Manager, Social Investment and Alternative FinanceDepartment Overview

As the development sector faces significant change and disruption, Pact has adopted a nimble and entrepreneurial approach, innovating to define and uniquely leverage non-traditional opportunities. Pact Ventures was launched to help shape this evolving market by:

Supporting Pact in bridging the development sector with the public, private and social sectors (i.e., operating at the “tri-sector” intersection)

Providing a platform to unlock and deploy non-traditional sources of capital for development, including impact investment and private capital

Structuring, investing in, and operating self-sustainable social enterprises and ventures focused on solving development issues using market-based forces

Position Purpose

Reporting to the Vice President, the Manager will be expected to support the Pact Ventures’ strategy, including engaging Pact’s country offices and program teams to design and execute sustainable funding/financing strategies. The Manager will play a critical role in growing the impact of the Pact Ventures team on both Pact and the development industry.

Key Responsibilities

As a key member of the Pact Ventures team, the Manager is the primary contributor to conceptualizing sustainability opportunities and executing funding/financing vehicles. The role is highly entrepreneurial, with deep exposure to impact investing in the context of development and multi-stakeholder engagements. Core responsibilities include:

Conducting due diligence on development programs and/or social enterprises to identify readiness for impact investment or shared-value partnerships

Engaging various stakeholders (e.g., program delivery, country offices, evaluators, private sector, etc) to develop and syndicate funding/financing roadmaps (i.e., path to sustainability for a development program or social enterprise)

Analyzing how Pact should incorporate and respond to themes/trends in impact capital and development sector

Execution: Structuring and closing partnerships, transactions, and other financing opportunities